Duetting Giant-Honeyeater / Gymnomyza brunneirostris
WBN 
Duetting Giant-Honeyeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Am.Mus.Novit. no.516 p.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Gymnomyza
Taxonomy Code: duegih1
Type Locality: Viti Levu Island, Fiji Islands.
Author: Mayr
Publish Year: 1932
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GYMNOMYZA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Crow Honeyeater G. aubryana) Gr. γυμνος gumnos bare, naked; genus Myza Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1895, myza; "le tour de l'œil en partie dénudé, sauf en arrière, où les plumes de la paupière relient celles de la tête; une autre nudité, partant du dessous de l'œil, s'étend sur le côté de la tête, en dessus et en avant de la région parotique" (J. Verreaux & des Murs 1860); "Herr Reichenow stellt hierauf zwei neue Gattungen auf: Gymnomyza mit dem Typ Leptornis aubryanus Verr. Desm. und Dreptes mit dem Typ Nectarina [sic] thomensis Boc." (Reichenow 1914); "Gymnomyza Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn. 1914, p. 488. Type (by original designation): Leptornis aubryanus V. et des M." (Mathews, 1930, Syst. Av. Austral., II, p. 799).
Synon. Amoromyza, Gummyza, Leptomyza, Leptornis.
brunneirostris
Mod. L. brunneus brown < Med. L. brunius brown; L. -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
